asciilifeform: if folks dropped dead simply by being asked politely!
asciilifeform: 'More than 35 years since its foundation, Safetykleen remains the UK’s market leading parts-washing company.' << 94.185.212.244:80
asciilifeform: http://35.8.60.151 << 'The OpenREP Project (OpenREP) provides information on dioxins and dioxin-like chemicals to the public. This is the only comprehensive source of scientific data on exposure risks due to dioxins and dioxin-like chemicals. Our team of curators.....'
asciilifeform: 'SelecSource is the most experienced staffing partner in Atlanta, specializing in skilled trades, industrial and clerical talent. Simply put, we know where to find most qualified and reliable people in the Southeast.' -- 216.5.27.248:80
asciilifeform: even to dump the raw txt (right column) on one page, separated by hlines, would be useful
asciilifeform: does army service count as 'employ' for the purpose of mircea_popescu's disdainful eye ?
asciilifeform: degrees -- worthless; people pretending to know what computer is but came straight from donkey - ubiquitous
asciilifeform: olympiads are a desperation measure, when i sat on other end of the table i resorted to them also
asciilifeform: some outfits had 'olympiad' so gnarly that it was given 'takehome'
asciilifeform: 'here's a pg of obdjump -D .., say what is the routine'
asciilifeform: last time asciilifeform went around to look for work, saw an astonishing variety of olympiad puzzles
asciilifeform: it's a helloworld, a litmus to see whether esteemed mr. orc has even heard of the notion of programming a computer
asciilifeform: why would they give exam on the d00d's comp, at ~his~ house
asciilifeform: so i how do i parse 'picked off the streets == "not has imperial diploma"'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: random d00d 'from street' could indeed have 'imperial diploma' neh ?
asciilifeform: now i'm stumped
asciilifeform: 'has 10 fingers' != 'has imperial diploma'
asciilifeform: gymnasts may not be perfect example. when you have a role where the training per se is costly, you're stuck picking. e.g., pilots; i recently read a quite interesting autobio, 'Обречены на подвиг' ('condemned to heroism', roughly) by su flying d00d / instructor / colonel. described how children having any physical imperfection, even tooth cavity, were mercilessly rejected from flight academy even if they passed all of
asciilifeform: 'robocalypse' is a when, not if, yes, but there are certain obstacles (mainly reducing to 'software sucks', and even 'we don't quite have computer yet')
asciilifeform: this is on account of easily-roboticized 'low hanging fruit' (e.g., pcb component placement) and also shortages of human hands created by welfarization
asciilifeform: you gotta take the ~hardest~-to-roboticize industrial processes as the basis for comparison, not the ~easiest~;
asciilifeform: and often i get distinct impression that mircea_popescu is posting from a parallel future on mars : where, e.g., robots are not three orders of magnitude more expensive than well-brainwashed 'work ethic' folx working with bare hands
asciilifeform: if you have a massive project that nobody computes ROI on, and folks throw rotten eggs at anyone who suggests doing so --- pyramid.
asciilifeform: you can prevent 'работа стоит -- а срок идет!' by imposing 'no work - no food' quotas, and this was often tried in gulag, but led to unexpected problems
asciilifeform: and simply tape-played it back.
asciilifeform: goodcop/badcop symbiosis, landlord/emperor
asciilifeform: in traditional society we also have 'emperor is far away, what care i'
asciilifeform: but, why the fuck would anyone donate family gold to prop up emperor's golden toilet
asciilifeform: 'CMP handles about 40 different design kits (corresponding to different technologies and different CAD tools), which are sent to customers upon signature of a Confidentiality and License Agreement.' << derpderp
asciilifeform: 'cmp', the other co. linked from trinque's old link, has actual PRICES!111 -- http://cmp.imag.fr/IMG/pdf/cmp_prices_schedule_sept-16.pdf
asciilifeform: assumed 'coinbase/stamp/etc tentacle'
asciilifeform: chromium is prolly the only logical feedstock for such an attempt. afaik.
asciilifeform: the fitness value of getting into the first black van that offers the proverbial candy -- is computable.
asciilifeform: some of the people who recently lost money when MF Global stole it to cover some private bets it had made. They licked their wounds, complained bitterly, and then...went looking for another financial company—to be taken advantage of again. '
asciilifeform: d perpetually accessible. It means preparing for a Web that may face greater restrictions. It means serving patrons when government surveillance may be on the rise. The Internet Archive is a non-profit library built on trust. Reader privacy is very important to us, so we don’t accept ads. We don’t collect your personal information. .... [snipped bs]'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-07#1579283 << ben_vulpes please consider posting the example of this you ran into
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2016/sad-times-in-the-fiat-empire-apparently-you-cant-give-the-dollar-away-these-days/ ?
asciilifeform: more subtly, they teach rubes to want certain impossible things -- 'central namespace', 'reversible money', 'transparent email crypto', various follies, that can only be satisfied with their particular dope supply
asciilifeform: will go in new jp empire.
asciilifeform: if they actually sold the coinz on the waterfall, and reddit chumpers have it nao, how would you picture them to disgorge it back ?
asciilifeform: it isn't even entirely clear that 'is this a tumour cell?' is a computable function.
asciilifeform: eh pretty much every half-useful attempt at cancer has been 'bind $poison to $selector'
asciilifeform: but 20th c. megaempires obsessively irradiated various living things, to see what comes of it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: examples like your ant abound. consider the infamous sphex wasp
asciilifeform: i couldn't begin to hazard a guess. but - who knows - perhaps ~had~, but somehow not ant-compatible.
asciilifeform: observation was not 'it is impossible', 'liek heavier-than-air flight!11111' but that none of the approaches ever tried afaik have led to anything of interest.
asciilifeform: there are 2 types of ai skeptic, the 'vitalists' ('immortal soul') and the 'shambling horror of computer', 'we don't even know how to make a spreadshit that dun crash' folk.
asciilifeform: you can't buy intelligent at the comp shop.
asciilifeform: seems like he runs something that looks like an attempt at distributed-chickens bbet
asciilifeform: why was new york 'compacted' as it was? it isn't as if there were no room to 'flatten' it
asciilifeform: all that empty space!1111111
asciilifeform: Framedragger: it is quite impossible to meaningfully cryptographicate with a stranger
asciilifeform: trinque: the fundamental question i want to answer, and which the linked piece was an attempt to answer, was whether signatures naturally fall into equivalence classes.
asciilifeform: trinque: the computability is for the purpose of a (hypothetical) ~generalized~ v.
asciilifeform: for instance, it demands RDRANDtronic quantities ( see also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577952 ) of rng, and -- if only finds a traditional linux /dev/random, the kind that weeps a few bytes/sec -- complains loudly...
asciilifeform finished, afaik, swapping all of the mpex links on nosuchlabs to new .biz
asciilifeform: i've monumentally nfi, why. possibly for historic reasons (not everybody is mpex and happy to have links die every 6 months)
asciilifeform: from same rag: 'Statistics released today show that the .uk registry suspended 8,049 domains in the 12 months to October 31, compared to 3,889 in the year-ago period.
asciilifeform: 'about 43% of all ICANN-accredited registrars are now controlled by just one company.'
asciilifeform: 'A buffer overflow occurs in zipinfo (part of the unzip package) when the compression method in the central directory file header is greater then 999'
asciilifeform: i'll point out that konrad zuse built a very acceptable comp out of junk discarded by nazi germany, in mother's kitchen.
asciilifeform: probably the board, or the boot code programming DRAM-related components in a way that doesn't work on this board.'
asciilifeform: '$100 says your DRAM chip works. The DRAM chip is a mindless slave implementing precise commands by the DRAM controller on the master chip, without any feedback - there are no retries, no negotiation, no way to say you're sorry. And no software will run properly on faulty DRAM. Faulty DRAM isn't a marketable product. Your board is definitely buggy. They told you they checked signal integrity, but they lied. If DRAM malfunctions, it's
asciilifeform: btw the 'array of fpgas' thing is getting made, as soon as i'm satisfied that lattice 'ice' is ~actually~ reversed. and not simply 'kicad'-ed.
asciilifeform: !#s computers you can't program
asciilifeform: 'do you want a comp or an electric best friend'
asciilifeform: oblig here is y. kreinin's article on 'computers you can't program'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: google (or rather, the firm it bought) had 0 original ai. it was 1990s-era techniques, they simply licensed the code and threw iron at it
asciilifeform: so i have nfi, perhaps the published designs were made with megatonnes of compensatory undergrad sweat...
asciilifeform: phf: i put in the sweat, actually learned to use geda, it is imho an acceptable design, and i found plenty of complicated items purportedly having been designed with it, but it is BROKEN, the autorouter blew open polygons
asciilifeform: (np-complete)
asciilifeform: it is trash in the sense that it is physically impossible to autorout 100% of board
asciilifeform: fucktards, for all of the man-hours on gui idiocy, SOMEONE could have implemented sane autorout?!
asciilifeform: way from selling perpetual rights to use a specific version of software, Autodesk will continually innovate and improve products and supporting services that customers subscribe to, allowing access from multiple devices at any time, making them easier to deploy and manage, and reducing file compatibility issues.' ( http://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/www/campaigns/mfg-perpetual/end-of-perpetual-customer-faqs.pdf )
asciilifeform: they measure with analogue amperemeter, etc.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-04#1577534 << the petrol engine is not well impedance-matched with anything, even auto wheels on asphalt ! hence the 'hybrids' thing
asciilifeform: when 'moore's law' finally croaked, they switched to 'improvements' like this.
asciilifeform: anyway there were two and afaik exactly two makers of pc-compatible boards with the last, magical, amd g-series, and shipped full schematics.
asciilifeform: it is theoretically still in production, but every vendor i know of will attempt to bait-and-switch and spuriously substitute the 2015-and-post revision that will NOT.
asciilifeform: for all i know, d00d specifically wants the attempted infector in that rar!!111
asciilifeform: it is not, for example, the fault of gentoo authors, that rms became a living mushroom and lifted not one finger to keep emacs from demanding dbus
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577762 << gentoo is in the sad place where it is because of 'portage' (the thing that attempts to automagically download tarballs of source and build deps in the correct order) , and the decay of the entire ecosystem of buildables, which isn't strictly to do with gentoo per se
asciilifeform puts on list to read man's complete worx
asciilifeform: mod6: lamportron is not merely 'spare key' but to ensure against a specific scenario, rsacalypse
asciilifeform: (to break n-bit lamportron, you need n collisions AT ONCE)
asciilifeform: it's world's simplest pubkey sig scheme
asciilifeform: ( d00d lives in a parallel world where , e.g., mpex is dead, and ready to tell any old-timer randomly reappearing in his chan - as they sometimes do - that it vanished long ago, etc )
asciilifeform: nor does it ask to become root, nor does it ask you to fuck with your global compiler set
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the verilog compiler.
asciilifeform: there are several quite obvious scenarios where 1) i would like a reliable picture of what someone else rated 2) it is impractical to converse. one, discussed earlier, is death. another -- long voyages, at sea, on the run from nazis, with partizans in the forest, etc.
asciilifeform: i am beginning to suspect that different folx want different and possibly incompatible things from the concept of wot.
asciilifeform: i think american chickens get lamps
asciilifeform actually went to this school. or rather, diff one by same name that used to stand in the empty lot next to that one.
asciilifeform: http://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2016/11/trump-supporter-15-beaten-during-rockville-protest/slide/1/ << in other lelz
asciilifeform: whereas i - as simply a pubkey.
asciilifeform: phf: you would simply need to HAVE ASKED me 20 years ago for pubkey.
asciilifeform: yes, it is ~impossible to make a robot-who-rates , with tech as i currently understand it. does not change the fact that perma-ratings are a fundamentally stronger building material than 'go and ask him and see if he feels like telling you the truth'
asciilifeform: this example is only an example in so far as it would be a pretty pointless mechanism
asciilifeform: and then there are the compulsives who wash 50x day, etc.
asciilifeform: a signature simply states that 'at time t, the following...'
asciilifeform: where 'we will do same retarded Empire thing but CHEAPER, EFFICIENT' because 'private'
asciilifeform: aha, in the 'black schools' there is neverending fight, like in a prison, and even bouncers to pry apart especially eager folk. and everyone with 'room temperature iq' however you measure it, also
asciilifeform: it beats the shit out of 'gimp' et al in some respects
asciilifeform: for some reason i always picture it as one of those basque wood-chopping competitions
asciilifeform: to take example, if mircea_popescu generates keys using cuntmusculature noise, using dildonic myographs, this is bulletproof UNTIL enemy finds out and sends specially-trained pulsator gurls to long-game infiltrate harem etc.
asciilifeform: btw most engines made since mid-1990s have an electronic damper that kicks in b/w , iirc, 3rd and 4th gear, and also has to be mounted, and correctly, or ~increases~ vibration
asciilifeform: complete with 1930s wtfs
asciilifeform: the observation about 'nitro in a stock engine' is not untrue: idiots who take stim produce idiocy 10x faster, because they are unaccustomed to the horsepower and have nfi where to put it, their crankshaft simply bends
asciilifeform: it is why asciilifeform is sympathetic to the 'gabriel_laddel's dope' pov : the degree of contortion involved in serious engineering , mentally, is every bit as much a self-abuse as to take any known dope
asciilifeform: or, i will add for completeness, both -- sober. also worx for some folx.
asciilifeform: only the latter, notably, results in the inmate/employee being of some residual use to his owner, so 'corporate culture' is unsurprisingly built around utilization of this type, and the speedy ejection of the other one.
asciilifeform: briefly revisiting upstack, imho 'mapper' and 'packer' as depicted in the essays are only 'types of people' in the sense that there were two types of inmate at auschwitz - folx who immediately jumped the fence and died on the wire, and ones who 'checked out' and turned 'Muselmann' ;
asciilifeform: important ingredient is the lack of mathematical or any other pre-requisite that a reader might lack and thereby stumble, or provoke feeling of inferiority
asciilifeform: asciilifeform refers to this genre of writing as '10th-dimension', after infamous pseudoscientific b00k/www by same name, which consisted of highly refined 'imponade' (to borrow naggum's) , that is, writing designed to pull the reader's intellectual cock and give a sensation of 'profound insight', 'yes, NAO i UNDERSTAND FIZZZIX!' or similar.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes already owns 1/3 (by mass...) of a complete unit !1111
asciilifeform: but giving ~them~ soundproof boxes etc. simply results on moar tetris-man-hours.
asciilifeform: folx who WANT to do the thing they are doing -- or at least have genuine desire to hold in their hands the end result, $widget, $proggy , and not merely the week's paycheque -- give the impression of the '25x productive'
asciilifeform: fact that if the base library dependency isn’t there, the component can’t link to it. He looked at me and said, “There are no facts, there are only opinions, and all opinions are equal.” ...'
asciilifeform: en able to link. One day it became apparent that the component extended a base class of the Qt graphics toolkit, while their program used MFC. Foolishly, I ventured to suggest that if the base class wasn’t available, a derived class couldn’t be linked to it. One of the workers informed me that this was “my opinion”. I should have left it alone, I know. But I used to work in a useful industry. I explained that it was a simple
asciilifeform: 'Amongst some people, such confusion has been elevated to a philosophical ideology. I once watched a very lost group working near to me, who had spent months trying to print out a graph. It was all very complicated for them. Eventually they decided to purchase a third party graph drawing component, which advertised that it could print out graphs. After considerable administration they obtained a binary library, which they were not th
asciilifeform: phf: http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/heads.jpg : two example usb heads (battery for scale strictly)
asciilifeform: lower-case fuckgoats are simply goats, such that are supplied to bagram airbase for the troops to fuck.
asciilifeform: 'of note, previously static compilation on OpenBSD resulted in segmentation fault. this is due to libpthread not being fully linked into the final static binary...' << what did this dig lead to , phf ?
asciilifeform: 'Eusip Bvba is the independent and autonomous company behind the projects RACK66 and former projects as Thunderbox and FragFun. The company was founded in 2003 by Internetpioneers who know the market very well and felt the need for a new kind of concept for services as: hosting, housing, managed services, pre installed servers and online gaming....'
asciilifeform: 'I thought that /dev/random (as opposed to /dev/urandom) was already based on entropy from physical noise, as recorded by sensors (I think including mouse, keyboard and temperature). Sounds like they're trying to make a big deal out of addressing a theoretical vulnerability, which is irrelevant in practice.' << glorious
asciilifeform: 'As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an in
asciilifeform: having once attempted a font render engine, asciilifeform knows a bit also.
asciilifeform: but did not, and grew up to program computer.
asciilifeform: something like macsyma, which tried to encompass all of undergrad maths and some beyond, was what, 2MB zipped.
asciilifeform: because i noticed interesting thing, supposedly 'simple' things will have a border beyond which the complexity explodes for 'no reason' , as per the 'cat' thread from 2 yrs ago
asciilifeform: anything more complicated / stateful tends to be called 'firewall', and also to suck.
asciilifeform: and in a machine with such linkage, corkscrew is almost impossible.
asciilifeform: which rely on bug-for-bug compatibility with the morass.
asciilifeform: instead of 'find the poetterings and impale'
asciilifeform: linked piece is lulzy on account of the idiot 'solution' picked on the victim end, 'That solution comes in the form of the "portable dumper" patch from Daniel Colascione. This patch is not small; it adds over 4,500 lines of code to Emacs and it is not yet complete...'
asciilifeform: it is (the umpteenth) attempt to break bitcoin.
asciilifeform: it may be the case that 'core 0.13.1' (which is an imposter pseudo-bitcoin client, see below) refuses to speak with trb.
asciilifeform: 'The company's IQOS smokeless cigarette, which is already on sale in over a dozen markets including Japan, Switzerland and Italy, heats tobacco enough to produce a vapor without burning it. The company believes that makes it much less harmful than cigarettes.' << i thought this died in 1970s..?
asciilifeform: if my lai massacre happened today, usg may well simply 'accidentally' all of the witnesses.
asciilifeform: compress the bloatstring with normal compressor!
asciilifeform: same way as obump.
asciilifeform: trinque: how much sweat would it take to add procedure, attempt http (80) and https (445) on phucked ip, then post http title, if found, and in case of ssl, cert id string
asciilifeform: mats: i will underscore the point: i am entirely, thoroughly, monumentally disinterested in purchasing industrial component where i gotta make a cousin-fucking relationship with some orc even before i get something like a quote. no anonymous cash'n'carry? not wanted in my supply line, not if there is an alternative.
asciilifeform: the only piece i'm not sold on is the 'liberasty kills every great empire' thing. yes, it is ~found in the corpse~ of every great empire, but it is precisely the aids fungi.
asciilifeform: and yes these were glues holding empire together. fuck empire.
asciilifeform: if bad ideas were spread simply by eating magic mountain, world would be considerably cleaner
asciilifeform: but as example of somebody 'well dug up'
asciilifeform: like if you bought, e.g., atmel micro of comparable horse.
asciilifeform: mats: it means that i don't pay motherfucking retail price. y'know, one where you feel like complete idiot because 'hack magazine' folk are buying ENTIRE BOARDS for below what you pay per-chip.
asciilifeform: (and woe be to the experimenter who actually needs to know whether such a component is available in bulk, where, at what price point, or for how long ! )
asciilifeform: ( in a much earlier even thread , about the marvell chipset used in pogotron, i found same thing -- the chip is simply not www-orderable in the west, at least not at any kind of price point that isn't a laugh when stood next to the price of whole pogo )
asciilifeform: mats: i handed out a bunch of chinese sample boards at conf3, didn't help...
asciilifeform: trinque: is there a simple way to make the graph fill the area of display available to it ?
asciilifeform: imho sanity in trb logs would include not only timestamp but such things as non-mutilated tx ids (wtf, srsly, are these 1st N bytes, or last, or wat) but also separation of blockchainchurch and mempoolstate
asciilifeform: it is doubly odd to attempt to play games on one
asciilifeform: this resulted in 0 featurecomplete open sores support.
asciilifeform: interestingly, unlike nvidia, amd published (what were nominally..) complete datashits for all of their gpu.
asciilifeform: 'how x works', when it exists in computerdom, tends to 1) live on dead tree 2) which has yellowed from age and smoke
asciilifeform: i dun think he noticed... it must've been a very compact telephone pole
asciilifeform: ( imho most interesting q -- is the thing ~self-hosting~ ? i.e. compiler binary + source, full toolchain, etc )
asciilifeform: and also, d00d who empties a mag into -- mostly -- thin air and furniture -- is 'rampage' ?!
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-26#1573465 << there is inly a decrufted mpi (bignum) from it, it is on my www
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 'computer science' is taught with chalk
asciilifeform: wai is there a computer involved
asciilifeform: 'The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.'
asciilifeform: the degenerate cases where f == m for some m are annoying but interesting on account of the implications -- there are 3prime debianized mods in there!
asciilifeform: *attempt
asciilifeform: Framedragger: i unfortunately cannot recommend it any longer, because it is guaranteed to be incompatible with any attemp at 'tmsr dns' or similar
asciilifeform: lel re oldtimerz reappearing in ruins of #b-a and kako 'helpfully informing' them 'mpex is dead, mp ran with the money'
asciilifeform: death by difficulty-bumping is different item from death by bugatronics
asciilifeform: naturally, this crud is simple smoke screen around the mot et al multi-year effort to permissionize btc.
asciilifeform: '“I don’t want to energize the group. I’m not looking to energize them. I don’t want to energize the group, and I disavow the group,” Trump said ...'
asciilifeform: 'When the economy collapses, hard-drinking people everywhere find all the more reason to get drunk, but much less wherewithal with which to procure drink. In Russia, innovative market-based solutions were quickly improvised, which it was my privilege to observe. ' << orlov's megaclassic, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/062805_soviet_lessons_part2.shtml
asciilifeform initially assumed 'early april fool joke' but the thing shows symptoms of actually existing...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'pgpdump' will extract handily.
asciilifeform: and earlier by fleanode nick. because it imported the broken concepts of the empire.
asciilifeform: i will carefully work out example:
asciilifeform: naggum had some imho interesting detail re 'magic numbers', and how they are not born from empty space, but are gangrenously oozed eternally by pathologically misdesigned systems where operator is FORCED to lie about foreknowledge of field sizes, types, etc.
asciilifeform: in other ( https://archive.is/WOLLO ) lulz, 'When you take a look at the implementation of /dev/random in [freebsd] 11.0 you will notice that with the support of the new random algorithms (fortuna has replaced yarrow), there is also support to feed the entropy with a write call to /dev/random. The 10.x releases do not support this write call. The man page previously said for 10.3 that writes will be silently ignored and in the 11.0 m
asciilifeform: shinohai: 'wall' was a catch-all name for the (economically impossible) notion of bringing back 1952
asciilifeform: 'People in the myriad “alt-right” communities that have flourished online in recent years are also expressing their displeasure that Trump appears to have abandoned the most extreme of his policies – at least for now – such as building a wall and prosecuting Hillary Clinton.'
asciilifeform: lel re how they stuffed entire comp into the 'nand'
asciilifeform: re 'proof of cunt', one inescapably wonders why this important organ escaped the 'biometrics' craze
asciilifeform: the 'fake newz', 'this site MAY HARM YOUR COMPUTER!1111', etc. are simply part of the inexorable march to http://www.loper-os.org/?p=208 .
asciilifeform: ''He did tell me what he thought were the biggest problems, in particular one problem," Trump says. Won't say what that was.' << mega-lul
asciilifeform: 'When Mr. Trump was asked whether he condemned an alt-right conference over the weekend in Washington, where some attendees raised their arms in a Hitler-like salute, he said, “I disavow and condemn them.”'
asciilifeform: 'Mr. Trump denied that his campaign had energized the so-called alt-right movement, saying he disavowed it. “It’s not a group I want to energize,” he said. “And if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why.”'
asciilifeform: (in one variant; always; in another - whenever they feel like serving up slightly different js to the chump)
asciilifeform: '"These people aren't kooks. They're a dangerous, racist, anti-Semitic group of people who are attacking the core values of America... [Trump] has an obligation to all Americans to stand up and denounce this group."'
asciilifeform: meanwhile in the circus, https://archive.is/vcQlA >> 'While President-elect Donald Trump has yet to denounce the alt-right by name, CNN's Chris Cuomo says he should. "It's about being a leader," Cuomo said on "New Day" Tuesday. "You denounce things that are wrong. That's what leaders do."'
asciilifeform: RANDOM sample, aha
asciilifeform: 'There are reasons for concern. According to the director of national intelligence, the leaked emails ... .... [buncha claptrap snipped] ... Russian hackers attacked ... A full manual recount of the paper records would be definitive, but that’s unnecessarily difficult, expensive and time-consuming ... There’s an easier way: an audit that manually examines a random sample of the ballots'
asciilifeform: 'At no point lower in the automatic update process is a cryptographic signature verified. The update server is trusted explicitly and implicitly by every WordPress website online ... They are aware of this issue, and have been for years...'
asciilifeform: using what patch ? standard trb dun have import..
asciilifeform misread as 'mp-complete'
asciilifeform: now, when they make installing winblowz (or for that matter 'africa', and crapple) on a crown comp a punishable offense -- Then! news.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as far as i can see, the old idiocies 'xt' and 'classic' were simply renamed
asciilifeform: and american-style liberasty is simply the indignation of one set of redditors that the other is paid, while they - not
asciilifeform: btw the same folx who spat on eulora coin -- happily jumped through 1,001 hoops to participate in pyramids on tardstalk etc. because, i suspect, they are not actually stupid, and pyramid offers the dull an opportunity to ~scan next level down~. whereas they could not see where greater fool is to come from at eulora.
asciilifeform: notice how 'civilians' (reddit folk etc) still react in disbelief when they read about mpex having worked as-described ? they will sooner believe in telekinesis, ufo proctologists abducting 50yo d00dz, divine healings, etc.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-20#1571565 << 'min wage' as found in usa and elsewhere is a complex and long-term parasitic relationship, not a d00d who throws a penny at a bootblack and expects something other than derisive smirk
asciilifeform: (needless to say, wiener's b00k has 0 to do with computer or any similar mechanism from today)
asciilifeform: there are really 2 'trumpreichs', the imaginary, spherical one, which is friend of tmsr, sound money, etc. and the physical one, that is (to borrow from lenin) 'we smashed the old shithouse and now gotta build new one using the bricks of the old'
asciilifeform: (actual p2p chat between kons000mer d00dz behind NATs was impractical then just as now)
asciilifeform: in 2003 i bought a massive hp pa-risc box (complete with emp shielding grates, power supply on wheeled rails, etc) and it turned out to have been an old aol 'messenger' server !
asciilifeform: shinohai: 'slack' is simply today's 'aol messenger', 'icq', same '90s centralized chatroom item. sufficiently similar, on surface, to irc, that i'd imagine folks would be used to the concept ?
asciilifeform: (we had how many, few dozen? 'fromphuctor' folk. and 1, 2, spoke ?)
asciilifeform: !!up frompeanutgaller
asciilifeform: physically it ~can~ dump ram, research proj i led at the time investigated how to coax it to do this, among other things
asciilifeform: i had occasion to install such a machine a few yrs ago, somewhere, it came with 'kvm chipset', but this feature was not advertised. the advertised feature is just that, kvm, where you get a tty prompt.)
asciilifeform: btw werker uses db for approx. 40 seconds of a run, to dump keys, which subsequently all load into memory.
asciilifeform: and, to continue to rain on the parade, if every www site has to be run like mpex, it will cost. and the range of things that can be provided 'for the public', 'for phreeee', will correspondingly shrink.
asciilifeform: (and , for folks with poor reading comprehension, i will repeat - entire box is ~unreachable, trb node, ssh, 80, etc )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-19#1570743 << i have, as you can surmise, own comp, that still works
asciilifeform: the folx whose chumpnet we blew open, with the debian boxes, i suspect -- trying to make their displeasure known.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: probably thing to do will be periodic dumps
asciilifeform: http://archive.is/gZqQJ << in other lulz. 'The tax agency sent a broad request on Thursday to Coinbase, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the United States, asking for the records of all customers who bought virtual currency from the company from 2013 to 2015.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: most above-board 'generic pharma' in usa is imported from india.
asciilifeform: 'The Bitcoin community and, especially, miners, now face the most important decision in Bitcoin’s existence. They are to choose between two fundamentally different visions for bitcoin’s future. Segwit, a centralized capacity increase from 1MB to around 1.7MB, or Bitcoin Unlimited, a decentralized mechanism for on-chain scalability decision making. ' << sanity not, according to this thing, on the table ..?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: what was your sample size ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: as i gather, you are trying to follow the example of mircea_popescu , who - famously - has never worked for pay, etc. but afaik mircea_popescu never had any problems receiving mail or having own comp.
asciilifeform: and i live on ground 0 of i dun even want to contemplate what.
asciilifeform will never again say that a program he writes is 'x % complete', it is a mistake
asciilifeform: or 'can block cipher be put on a scientific footing re min-complexity'
asciilifeform: my take on 'fiverr' et al: ~stupid people are not a resource for the republic~. live'em to wander the world, live and die, to possibly birth less stupid folx, mine uranium for dying empires, etc., see also http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-02#699078 .
asciilifeform: if every attempt at solving particular problem leads to a d00d who takes to kakodrink and wander off muttering nonsense for the rest of his days, and never anything resembling a solution appears, possibly problem was ill-posed...
asciilifeform: '"Y'all over here shooting dogs now?" a city employee asked a DPD officer in the aftermath of the raid, according to the lawsuit. "Nah, it committed suicide," the officer allegedly replied.'
asciilifeform: 'A group of protesters has stormed the lobby of the Washington DC building where President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is preparing for the start of his presidential term. Photos and videos have emerged of activists gathered inside and outside the General Services Administration (GSA) building in a protest organized by the American Jewish activist group IfNotNow.'
asciilifeform: btw everyone probably remembers this from the golden olden debian days, but these chumps tend to also have remote ssh login with debianized keyz
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it was a very simple experiment, took about 35 min. to set up while dinner was cooking.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: yes, you would. and this is thought to be impractical, but not impossible (see the atomic jet of the '50s, for instance.)
asciilifeform: the extended contemplation of ~using~ that thing in some future edifice here has got to be a running joke, which asciilifeform isn't in on..
asciilifeform: (vs simple neglect)
asciilifeform: i do not necessarily go with 'EVERYTHING must be made of blockchaintronium!111' thing. (if you recall this was actually subj of 1st conversation between mircea_popescu & asciilifeform , on the former's www, back in the day...) but i also dun see why to create a 'throne' if there is a simple means of not creating a throne and solving the problem.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for asciilifeform's enlightenment, describe plox why coin should not be made of the same 'lead' (simple scheme -- there are N coins at 'sunrise', and, e.g., mircea_popescu can move coin no. 1,555 to ben_vulpes by signing 'coin 1,555 now belongs to [key of ben_vulpes] at time T' etc
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/rhuth/?raw=true << complete emulator.
asciilifeform: but 'central servers' implies that i might also rely on mircea_popescu to say where, e.g., ben_vulpes's site, lives
asciilifeform: (not speaking of marvels like 'the big soviet encyclopaedia', which famously in '30s had 'updates' mailed in to subscribers, complete with razor blade to cut out undesirables)
asciilifeform: copy the structure of the empire -- become the empire.
asciilifeform: how is the 'able to' mechanically implemented ? because it is, or at least appears to be, promisetronic
asciilifeform: and here we are speaking non-standardized commercial pidgin from long-dead empire, and it mostly worx..
asciilifeform: Framedragger: fact is, central table of anything at all, is a throne, i simply do not see the 'win' from retaining the throne.
asciilifeform: (and transport link where nsa can flip any bit or drop any packet with impunity etc)
asciilifeform: the one problem, shared with every other piece like this that i know of, is that it omits the obvious cure, which is not simply to thermonuke the crud, but to kill the horse it rode in on, and the rider, and to burn the field that it fed on, and salt it.
asciilifeform: promisetronic 'verifications' are an eternal plague among the stupid. consider even the timestamp in gpg (to make the phuctor sig from last night's qntra, i used ordinary gpg 1.4, with patch). what business does a userland proggy have asking for the wall clock time without permission? if i want it to have a time, i will pipe 'date' to it...
asciilifeform: (they, as everyone probably already guessed, get db queried one-at-a-time. to do anything else would result in a 50x more complicated phuctor.)
asciilifeform: (the remainder - also can, with manufacturer's backdoor pw, which i simply do not happen to know)
asciilifeform: at least the rotgut from BingoBoingo's 'night train' article, is cheap road to complete catatonia
asciilifeform: and they hate, yes, even music, in so far as it pertains to the non-beetles, rather how proverbial vampire hates the crucifix
asciilifeform: 'The attacker just have to press and keep pressing the [Enter] key at the LUKS password prompt until a shell appears, which occurs after 70 seconds approx.'